MenuFor adult study: "Like This Child"
The story summary and questions were written in a way that makes it possible to use a New Testament reference in place of the Urantia reference. A selected chapter from a 1932 book, Treasure-House of the Living Religions, supports a spiritual theme that is found within the story. Children will use a one page handout that includes a coloring picture.
Paper 158:8
The Urantia Book
The story summary and questions were written in a way that makes it possible to use a New Testament reference in place of the Urantia reference. A selected chapter from a 1932 book, Treasure-House of the Living Religions, supports a spiritual theme that is found within the story. Children will use a one page handout that includes a coloring picture.
Paper 158:8
The Urantia Book
Whoever humbles himself like this child
Students may read Paper 158:8
Jesus and the disciples walked through Galilee and stopped for a while in Capernaum. Jesus sat down and asked the disciples what they had been talking about along the way. But they didn’t answer him because they had been discussing who would be greatest in the coming kingdom. Then, Jesus called a child to his side and said they needed to turn and become like children. “Whoever humbles himself like this child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.”
Discussion Questions
People often want to be the best or the greatest. Is that a good or bad thing? What does it mean when someone humbles himself? Greatness, according to Jesus, comes from a childlike trust in God and a willingness to serve others.
People often want to be the best or the greatest. Is that a good or bad thing? What does it mean when someone humbles himself? Greatness, according to Jesus, comes from a childlike trust in God and a willingness to serve others.
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Additional reading:
Read the other important thing that Jesus said about the kingdom and becoming like a child.
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Re: Greatness
131:8.4 ... Those who aspire to greatness must learn to humble themselves. ...
175:1.10 ... Remember, I have taught you that he who would be greatest among you should become the server of all. If you presume to exalt yourselves before God, you will certainly be humbled; but whoso truly humbles himself will surely be exalted. ...
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New Testament reference
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Chapter 19—Humility—p.99
The man who knoweth God, is the most exalted of the exalted;
Yet his mind is the most humble of all. (Sikhism)
Humility is the root of honor;
lowliness, the foundation of loftiness. (Taoism)
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